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Old 12-16-2010
cronjobs orphan processes
Our cron job stats its started on Oct20
% ps -ef | grep cron
root 1442044 1 0 Oct 20 - 25:23 /usr/sbin/cron

All the below jobs aixmf,aixgh are triggered from cron only.

user pid ppid date time cmd
gaix 1581282 1 35 16:33:01 - 20:56 /gaix/bin/aixmf
gaix 1437702 1 41 Dec 14 - 56:18 /gaix/bin/aixmf
gaix 1290244 1 13 Dec 14 - 32:40 /gaix/bin/aixgh
gaix 168028 1 13 Dec 14 - 34:20 /gaix/bin/aixgh

Without cron getting killed/restared is there any possibilities for these process to get adopted by init (PID 1)?
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Old 12-17-2010
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